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Job:1:3 @ He had seven thousand sheep, three thousand camels, five hundred yoke of oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and very many servants; so that this man was the greatest of all the people of the east.
rsv@Job:5:12 @ He frustrates the devices of the crafty, so that their hands achieve no success.
rsv@Job:5:18 @ For he wounds, but he binds up; he smites, but his hands heal.
rsv@Job:7:12 @ Am I the sea, or a sea monster, that thou settest a guard over me?
rsv@Job:7:18 @ dost visit him every morning, and test him every moment?
rsv@Job:9:19 @ If it is a contest of strength, behold him! If it is a matter of justice, who can summon him?
rsv@Job:12:11 @ Does not the ear try words as the palate tastes food?
rsv@Job:13:26 @ For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me inherit the iniquities of my youth.
rsv@Job:13:27 @ Thou puttest my feet in the stocks, and watchest all my paths; thou settest a bound to the soles of my feet.
rsv@Job:13:28 @ Man wastes away like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.
rsv@Job:14:11 @ As waters fail from a lake, and a river wastes away and dries up,
rsv@Job:15:6 @ Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; your own lips testify against you.
rsv@Job:16:8 @ And he has shriveled me up, which is a witness against me; and my leanness has risen up against me, it testifies to my face.
rsv@Job:21:17 @ "How often is it that the lamp of the wicked is put out? That their calamity comes upon them? That God distributes pains in his anger?
rsv@Job:21:29 @ Have you not asked those who travel the roads, and do you not accept their testimony
rsv@Job:21:31 @ Who declares his way to his face, and who requites him for what he has done?
rsv@Job:30:22 @ Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm.
rsv@Job:34:3 @ for the ear tests words as the palate tastes food.
rsv@Job:34:17 @ Shall one who hates justice govern? Will you condemn him who is righteous and mighty,
rsv@Job:38:17 @ Have the gates of death been revealed to you, or have you seen the gates of deep darkness?
rsv@Psalms:1:2 @ but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
rsv@Psalms:5:1 @ To the choirmaster: for the flutes. A Psalm of David.
rsv@Psalms:5:6 @ The boastful may not stand before thy eyes; thou hatest all evildoers.
rsv@Psalms:6:8 @ My eye wastes away because of grief, it grows weak because of all my foes.
rsv@Psalms:9:14 @ Be gracious to me, O LORD! Behold what I suffer from those who hate me, O thou who liftest me up from the gates of death,
rsv@Psalms:9:15 @ that I may recount all thy praises, that in the gates of the daughter of Zion I may rejoice in thy deliverance.
rsv@Psalms:11:5 @ The LORD is in his holy temple, the LORD's throne is in heaven; his eyes behold, his eyelids test, the children of men.
rsv@Psalms:11:6 @ The LORD tests the righteous and the wicked, and his soul hates him that loves violence.
rsv@Psalms:17:4 @ If thou triest my heart, if thou visitest me by night, if thou testest me, thou wilt find no wickedness in me; my mouth does not transgress.
rsv@Psalms:18:23 @ For all his ordinances were before me, and his statutes I did not put away from me.
rsv@Psalms:19:8 @ The law of the LORD is perfect, reviving the soul; the testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple;
rsv@Psalms:23:6 @ Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of my enemies; thou anointest my head with oil, my cup overflows. [ (Psalms strkjv@23:7) Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life; and I shall dwell in the house of the LORD for ever. ]
rsv@Psalms:24:8 @ Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in.
rsv@Psalms:24:10 @ Lift up your heads, O gates! and be lifted up, O ancient doors! that the King of glory may come in. [ (Psalms strkjv@24:11) Who is this King of glory? The LORD of hosts, he is the King of glory! [Selah] ]
rsv@Psalms:25:11 @ All the paths of the LORD are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep his covenant and his testimonies.
rsv@Psalms:26:3 @ Prove me, O LORD, and try me; test my heart and my mind.
rsv@Psalms:31:7 @ Thou hatest those who pay regard to vain idols; but I trust in the LORD.
rsv@Psalms:31:24 @ Love the LORD, all you his saints! The LORD preserves the faithful, but abundantly requites him who acts haughtily. [ (Psalms strkjv@31:25) Be strong, and let your heart take courage, all you who wait for the LORD! ]
rsv@Psalms:32:3 @ Blessed is the man to whom the LORD imputes no iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no deceit.
rsv@Psalms:33:10 @ The LORD brings the counsel of the nations to nought; he frustrates the plans of the peoples.
rsv@Psalms:50:8 @ "Hear, O my people, and I will speak, O Israel, I will testify against you. I am God, your God.
rsv@Psalms:50:17 @ But to the wicked God says: "What right have you to recite my statutes, or take my covenant on your lips?
rsv@Psalms:54:1 @ To the choirmaster: with stringed instruments. A Maskil of David, when the Ziphites went and told Saul, "David is in hiding among us."
rsv@Psalms:65:10 @ Thou visitest the earth and waterest it, thou greatly enrichest it; the river of God is full of water; thou providest their grain, for so thou hast prepared it.
rsv@Psalms:66:11 @ For thou, O God, hast tested us; thou hast tried us as silver is tried.
rsv@Psalms:75:8 @ but it is God who executes judgment, putting down one and lifting up another.
rsv@Psalms:78:6 @ He established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers to teach to their children;
rsv@Psalms:78:10 @ The E'phraimites, armed with the bow, turned back on the day of battle.
rsv@Psalms:78:19 @ They tested God in their heart by demanding the food they craved.
rsv@Psalms:78:42 @ They tested him again and again, and provoked the Holy One of Israel.
rsv@Psalms:78:57 @ Yet they tested and rebelled against the Most High God, and did not observe his testimonies,
rsv@Psalms:80:1 @ To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Testimony of Asaph. A Psalm.
rsv@Psalms:81:8 @ In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah]
rsv@Psalms:83:7 @ the tents of Edom and the Ish'maelites, Moab and the Hagrites,
rsv@Psalms:87:3 @ the LORD loves the gates of Zion more than all the dwelling places of Jacob.
rsv@Psalms:89:32 @ if they violate my statutes and do not keep my commandments,
rsv@Psalms:91:6 @ nor the pestilence that stalks in darkness, nor the destruction that wastes at noonday.
rsv@Psalms:95:9 @ when your fathers tested me, and put me to the proof, though they had seen my work.
rsv@Psalms:99:7 @ He spoke to them in the pillar of cloud; they kept his testimonies, and the statutes that he gave them.
rsv@Psalms:100:5 @ Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name! [ (Psalms strkjv@100:6) For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations. ]
rsv@Psalms:105:19 @ until what he had said came to pass the word of the LORD tested him.
rsv@Psalms:105:45 @ to the end that they should keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the LORD!
rsv@Psalms:106:14 @ But they had a wanton craving in the wilderness, and put God to the test in the desert;
rsv@Psalms:107:4 @ Some wandered in desert wastes, finding no way to a city to dwell in;
rsv@Psalms:107:18 @ they loathed any kind of food, and they drew near to the gates of death.
rsv@Psalms:107:40 @ he pours contempt upon princes and makes them wander in trackless wastes;
rsv@Psalms:118:19 @ Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD.
rsv@Psalms:119:2 @ Blessed are those who keep his testimonies, who seek him with their whole heart,
rsv@Psalms:119:5 @ O that my ways may be steadfast in keeping thy statutes!
rsv@Psalms:119:8 @ I will observe thy statutes; O forsake me not utterly!
rsv@Psalms:119:12 @ Blessed be thou, O LORD; teach me thy statutes!
rsv@Psalms:119:14 @ In the way of thy testimonies I delight as much as in all riches.
rsv@Psalms:119:16 @ I will delight in thy statutes; I will not forget thy word.
rsv@Psalms:119:22 @ take away from me their scorn and contempt, for I have kept thy testimonies.
rsv@Psalms:119:23 @ Even though princes sit plotting against me, thy servant will meditate on thy statutes.
rsv@Psalms:119:24 @ Thy testimonies are my delight, they are my counselors.
rsv@Psalms:119:26 @ When I told of my ways, thou didst answer me; teach me thy statutes!
rsv@Psalms:119:31 @ I cleave to thy testimonies, O LORD; let me not be put to shame!
rsv@Psalms:119:33 @ Teach me, O LORD, the way of thy statutes; and I will keep it to the end.
rsv@Psalms:119:36 @ Incline my heart to thy testimonies, and not to gain!
rsv@Psalms:119:46 @ I will also speak of thy testimonies before kings, and shall not be put to shame;
rsv@Psalms:119:48 @ I revere thy commandments, which I love, and I will meditate on thy statutes.
rsv@Psalms:119:54 @ Thy statutes have been my songs in the house of my pilgrimage.
rsv@Psalms:119:59 @ When I think of thy ways, I turn my feet to thy testimonies;
rsv@Psalms:119:64 @ The earth, O LORD, is full of thy steadfast love; teach me thy statutes!
rsv@Psalms:119:68 @ Thou art good and doest good; teach me thy statutes.
rsv@Psalms:119:71 @ It is good for me that I was afflicted, that I might learn thy statutes.
rsv@Psalms:119:79 @ Let those who fear thee turn to me, that they may know thy testimonies.
rsv@Psalms:119:80 @ May my heart be blameless in thy statutes, that I may not be put to shame!
rsv@Psalms:119:83 @ For I have become like a wineskin in the smoke, yet I have not forgotten thy statutes.
rsv@Psalms:119:88 @ In thy steadfast love spare my life, that I may keep the testimonies of thy mouth.
rsv@Psalms:119:95 @ The wicked lie in wait to destroy me; but I consider thy testimonies.
rsv@Psalms:119:99 @ I have more understanding than all my teachers, for thy testimonies are my meditation.
rsv@Psalms:119:111 @ Thy testimonies are my heritage for ever; yea, they are the joy of my heart.
rsv@Psalms:119:112 @ I incline my heart to perform thy statutes for ever, to the end.
rsv@Psalms:119:117 @ Hold me up, that I may be safe and have regard for thy statutes continually!
rsv@Psalms:119:118 @ Thou dost spurn all who go astray from thy statutes; yea, their cunning is in vain.
rsv@Psalms:119:119 @ All the wicked of the earth thou dost count as dross; therefore I love thy testimonies.
rsv@Psalms:119:124 @ Deal with thy servant according to thy steadfast love, and teach me thy statutes.
rsv@Psalms:119:125 @ I am thy servant; give me understanding, that I may know thy testimonies!
rsv@Psalms:119:129 @ Thy testimonies are wonderful; therefore my soul keeps them.
rsv@Psalms:119:135 @ Make thy face shine upon thy servant, and teach me thy statutes.
rsv@Psalms:119:138 @ Thou hast appointed thy testimonies in righteousness and in all faithfulness.
rsv@Psalms:119:144 @ Thy testimonies are righteous for ever; give me understanding that I may live.
rsv@Psalms:119:145 @ With my whole heart I cry; answer me, O LORD! I will keep thy statutes.
rsv@Psalms:119:146 @ I cry to thee; save me, that I may observe thy testimonies.
rsv@Psalms:119:152 @ Long have I known from thy testimonies that thou hast founded them for ever.
rsv@Psalms:119:155 @ Salvation is far from the wicked, for they do not seek thy statutes.
rsv@Psalms:119:157 @ Many are my persecutors and my adversaries, but I do not swerve from thy testimonies.
rsv@Psalms:119:167 @ My soul keeps thy testimonies; I love them exceedingly.
rsv@Psalms:119:168 @ I keep thy precepts and testimonies, for all my ways are before thee.
rsv@Psalms:119:171 @ My lips will pour forth praise that thou dost teach me thy statutes.
rsv@Psalms:122:3 @ Our feet have been standing within your gates, O Jerusalem!
rsv@Psalms:132:13 @ If your sons keep my covenant and my testimonies which I shall teach them, their sons also for ever shall sit upon your throne."
rsv@Psalms:135:11 @ Sihon, king of the Amorites, and Og, king of Bashan, and all the kingdoms of Canaan,
rsv@Psalms:136:19 @ Sihon, king of the Amorites, for his steadfast love endures for ever;
rsv@Psalms:137:7 @ Remember, O LORD, against the E'domites the day of Jerusalem, how they said, "Rase it, rase it! Down to its foundations!"
rsv@Psalms:137:8 @ O daughter of Babylon, you devastator! Happy shall he be who requites you with what you have done to us!
rsv@Psalms:140:13 @ I know that the LORD maintains the cause of the afflicted, and executes justice for the needy. [ (Psalms strkjv@140:14) Surely the righteous shall give thanks to thy name; the upright shall dwell in thy presence. ]
rsv@Psalms:146:7 @ who executes justice for the oppressed; who gives food to the hungry. The LORD sets the prisoners free;
rsv@Psalms:147:13 @ For he strengthens the bars of your gates; he blesses your sons within you.
rsv@Psalms:147:19 @ He declares his word to Jacob, his statutes and ordinances to Israel.
rsv@Proverbs:1:21 @ on the top of the walls she cries out; at the entrance of the city gates she speaks:
rsv@Proverbs:6:16 @ There are six things which the LORD hates, seven which are an abomination to him:
rsv@Proverbs:8:3 @ beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries aloud:
rsv@Proverbs:8:34 @ Happy is the man who listens to me, watching daily at my gates, waiting beside my doors.
rsv@Proverbs:11:15 @ He who gives surety for a stranger will smart for it, but he who hates suretyship is secure.
rsv@Proverbs:12:1 @ Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.
rsv@Proverbs:13:5 @ A righteous man hates falsehood, but a wicked man acts shamefully and disgracefully.
rsv@Proverbs:13:24 @ He who spares the rod hates his son, but he who loves him is diligent to discipline him.
rsv@Proverbs:14:19 @ The evil bow down before the good, the wicked at the gates of the righteous.
rsv@Proverbs:15:10 @ There is severe discipline for him who forsakes the way; he who hates reproof will die.
rsv@Proverbs:15:27 @ He who is greedy for unjust gain makes trouble for his household, but he who hates bribes will live.
rsv@Proverbs:16:28 @ A perverse man spreads strife, and a whisperer separates close friends.
rsv@Proverbs:17:9 @ He who forgives an offense seeks love, but he who repeats a matter alienates a friend.
rsv@Proverbs:18:6 @ A fool's lips bring strife, and his mouth invites a flogging.
rsv@Proverbs:18:17 @ He who states his case first seems right, until the other comes and examines him.
rsv@Proverbs:18:18 @ The lot puts an end to disputes and decides between powerful contenders.
rsv@Proverbs:23:32 @ At the last it bites like a serpent, and stings like an adder.
rsv@Proverbs:26:24 @ He who hates, dissembles with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart;
rsv@Proverbs:26:28 @ A lying tongue hates its victims, and a flattering mouth works ruin.
rsv@Proverbs:28:16 @ A ruler who lacks understanding is a cruel oppressor; but he who hates unjust gain will prolong his days.
rsv@Proverbs:29:24 @ The partner of a thief hates his own life; he hears the curse, but discloses nothing.
rsv@Proverbs:31:23 @ Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.
rsv@Proverbs:31:31 @ Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:2 @ Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:4 @ A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:5 @ The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:6 @ The wind blows to the south, and goes round to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:7 @ All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:8 @ All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:9 @ What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already, in the ages before us.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:11 @ There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:12 @ I the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:13 @ And I applied my mind to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven; it is an unhappy business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:14 @ I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:15 @ What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be numbered.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:16 @ I said to myself, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @ And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:1:18 @ For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:1 @ I said to myself, "Come now, I will make a test of pleasure; enjoy yourself." But behold, this also was vanity.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:2 @ I said of laughter, "It is mad," and of pleasure, "What use is it?"
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:3 @ I searched with my mind how to cheer my body with wine--my mind still guiding me with wisdom--and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven during the few days of their life.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:4 @ I made great works; I built houses and planted vineyards for myself;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:5 @ I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:6 @ I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:7 @ I bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house; I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in Jerusalem.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:8 @ I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, man's delight.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:9 @ So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:10 @ And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil, and this was my reward for all my toil.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:11 @ Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:12 @ So I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what can the man do who comes after the king? Only what he has already done.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:13 @ Then I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:14 @ The wise man has his eyes in his head, but the fool walks in darkness; and yet I perceived that one fate comes to all of them.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:15 @ Then I said to myself, "What befalls the fool will befall me also; why then have I been so very wise?" And I said to myself that this also is vanity.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:16 @ For of the wise man as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise man dies just like the fool!
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:17 @ So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:18 @ I hated all my toil in which I had toiled under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:19 @ and who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:20 @ So I turned about and gave my heart up to despair over all the toil of my labors under the sun,
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:21 @ because sometimes a man who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave all to be enjoyed by a man who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:22 @ What has a man from all the toil and strain with which he toils beneath the sun?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:23 @ For all his days are full of pain, and his work is a vexation; even in the night his mind does not rest. This also is vanity.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:24 @ There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:25 @ for apart from him who can eat or who can have enjoyment?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:2:26 @ For to the man who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:1 @ For everything there is a season, and a time for every matter under heaven:
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:2 @ a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:3 @ a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:4 @ a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:5 @ a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:6 @ a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:7 @ a time to rend, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:8 @ a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:9 @ What gain has the worker from his toil?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:10 @ I have seen the business that God has given to the sons of men to be busy with.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:11 @ He has made everything beautiful in its time; also he has put eternity into man's mind, yet so that he cannot find out what God has done from the beginning to the end.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:12 @ I know that there is nothing better for them than to be happy and enjoy themselves as long as they live;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:13 @ also that it is God's gift to man that every one should eat and drink and take pleasure in all his toil.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:14 @ I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:15 @ That which is, already has been; that which is to be, already has been; and God seeks what has been driven away.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:16 @ Moreover I saw under the sun that in the place of justice, even there was wickedness, and in the place of righteousness, even there was wickedness.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:17 @ I said in my heart, God will judge the righteous and the wicked, for he has appointed a time for every matter, and for every work.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:18 @ I said in my heart with regard to the sons of men that God is testing them to show them that they are but beasts.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:19 @ For the fate of the sons of men and the fate of beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts; for all is vanity.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:20 @ All go to one place; all are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:21 @ Who knows whether the spirit of man goes upward and the spirit of the beast goes down to the earth?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:3:22 @ So I saw that there is nothing better than that a man should enjoy his work, for that is his lot; who can bring him to see what will be after him?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:1 @ Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:2 @ And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:3 @ but better than both is he who has not yet been, and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:4 @ Then I saw that all toil and all skill in work come from a man's envy of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:5 @ The fool folds his hands, and eats his own flesh.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:6 @ Better is a handful of quietness than two hands full of toil and a striving after wind.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:7 @ Again, I saw vanity under the sun:
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:8 @ a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:9 @ Two are better than one, because they have a good reward for their toil.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:10 @ For if they fall, one will lift up his fellow; but woe to him who is alone when he falls and has not another to lift him up.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:11 @ Again, if two lie together, they are warm; but how can one be warm alone?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:12 @ And though a man might prevail against one who is alone, two will withstand him. A threefold cord is not quickly broken.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:13 @ Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who will no longer take advice,
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:14 @ even though he had gone from prison to the throne or in his own kingdom had been born poor.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:15 @ I saw all the living who move about under the sun, as well as that youth, who was to stand in his place;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:4:16 @ there was no end of all the people; he was over all of them. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:1 @ Guard your steps when you go to the house of God; to draw near to listen is better than to offer the sacrifice of fools; for they do not know that they are doing evil.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:2 @ Be not rash with your mouth, nor let your heart be hasty to utter a word before God, for God is in heaven, and you upon earth; therefore let your words be few.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:3 @ For a dream comes with much business, and a fool's voice with many words.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:4 @ When you vow a vow to God, do not delay paying it; for he has no pleasure in fools. Pay what you vow.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:5 @ It is better that you should not vow than that you should vow and not pay.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:6 @ Let not your mouth lead you into sin, and do not say before the messenger that it was a mistake; why should God be angry at your voice, and destroy the work of your hands?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:7 @ For when dreams increase, empty words grow many: but do you fear God.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:8 @ If you see in a province the poor oppressed and justice and right violently taken away, do not be amazed at the matter; for the high official is watched by a higher, and there are yet higher ones over them.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:9 @ But in all, a king is an advantage to a land with cultivated fields.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:10 @ He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:11 @ When goods increase, they increase who eat them; and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:12 @ Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much; but the surfeit of the rich will not let him sleep.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:13 @ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:14 @ and those riches were lost in a bad venture; and he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:15 @ As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil, which he may carry away in his hand.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:16 @ This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go; and what gain has he that he toiled for the wind,
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:17 @ and spent all his days in darkness and grief, in much vexation and sickness and resentment?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:18 @ Behold, what I have seen to be good and to be fitting is to eat and drink and find enjoyment in all the toil with which one toils under the sun the few days of his life which God has given him, for this is his lot.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:19 @ Every man also to whom God has given wealth and possessions and power to enjoy them, and to accept his lot and find enjoyment in his toil--this is the gift of God.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:5:20 @ For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with joy in his heart.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:1 @ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men:
rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:2 @ a man to whom God gives wealth, possessions, and honor, so that he lacks nothing of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to enjoy them, but a stranger enjoys them; this is vanity; it is a sore affliction.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:3 @ If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:4 @ For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:5 @ moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.
rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:6 @ Even though he should live a thousand years twice told, yet enjoy no good--do not all go to the one place?
rsv@Ecclesiastes:6:7 @ All the toil of man is for his mouth, yet his appetite is not satisfied.